How to make society ravaged by random killing, prosper and remain happy?
- Set in near future.
- Human population is at most a hundred thousand.
- Everyone lives in mountainous regions to escape deadly miasma.
- The air is infected by nanites which can cause cardiac arrest in humans.
- All humans are being infected by nanites.
- The nanites are all connected in a network and would not activate altogether at once.
- Death in such a way is completely random and usually occurs at rate of a hundred per year.
- People only have access to primitive technology and no Internet.
- Food and water are scarce.
- No sign of miasma retreating anytime soon.
- Most importantly they are aware of the "curse".
Q: I need to find a way for the people to prosper and be happy, any solution?
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The principle of the Two-Edged-Sword.
The nanites were created for a purpose, to cure disease, prevent the ravages of ageing, to heal minor wounds and eliminate cancer and autoimune conditions. Mental illness is unknown as any major imballance of neurotransmitters is regulated and stabilised. The nanites still do these things for the most part.
The problem comes when a faulty bit of code (meant to put people into a protective coma upon major-injury until they can recieve emergency treatment) kicks in periodically - people die.
People are healthy and permanently young and vigorous, we all die some day and there is nothing to be done, and being too busy with the business of survival to work themselves into a state of existential-angst - happiness is the natural condition.
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